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All The Below info is taken from the book: The Hidden History of Massachusetts – A Guide for Black Folks Do yourself a favor and get a copy. This book is a true blessing for us BlackStonians who want to know our history as a tool of making change happen. |
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Joseph Warren Warren Street |
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Adams, John
Adams Street |
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Samuel Adams Sam Adams School East Boston |
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John Quincy Adams Town of Quincy, Adams Nat’l Historical Park (Quincy) |
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Louis Agassiz Agassiz School Jamaica Plain |
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Thomas Jefferson Jefferson Street |
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Sir Jeffrey Amherst Town of Amherst , Amherst College |
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James Bowdoin & Joshua Bowdoin Bowdoin Street |
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Dr. Zabdiel Boylston Boylston Street, Boylston Mass |
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George Washington Washington Street |
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Francis Parkman Parkman House |
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Moses Maimonides Moses Maimonides School in Brookline |
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Grover Cleveland Grover Cleveland School Dorchester |
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John Codman Codman Square |
| Christopher Columbus Columbus Avenue |
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James Madison Madison Park High School |
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Joseph Dudley Dudley Street, Dudley Square, Town of Dudley |
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Jon Eliot Eliot Square, Eliot Street, Eliot School |
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Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo School Roxbury |
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Edward Everett Everett Square, City of Everett, Everett Elementary School |
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Abraham Lincoln The Lincoln Freedman Memorial |
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Ben Franklin Franklin Park, Franklin Mass |
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Alexander Hamilton Hamilton School Brighton |
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John Hancock Hancock Mass |
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Joseph Peabody Peabody Mass |
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Cotton Mather Mather School |
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John Winthrop Winthrop Mass Winthrop Street |
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William Pepperel Pepperel Mass |
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John Rowe Rowes Wharf |
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Josiah Quincy I |
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Robert Gould Shaw The Shaw School West Roxbury |
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William Stoughton Stoughton Mass |
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Charles Sumner Sumner School, Sumner Tunnel |
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William H. Taft Taft Middle School Brighton |
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Woodrow Wilson Wilson Middle School Dorchester |
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| John Cabot & George Cabot Cabot Street |
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| Colonel Henry Bromfield Bromfield Street |
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| Ebenezer Dorr Dorr Street |
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| Peter Faneuil Faneuil Hall |
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| Richard Lechmere Lechmere Square |
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| Jonathan Jackson Jackson Square |
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| Roger Ludlow Ludlow Mass |
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| Samuel Maverick Maverick Square East Boston |
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| Edward Ruggles Ruggles Square, Ruggles Street |
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| The Whitney family Whitney Street |
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| Gordon Saltonstall Saltonstall Building |
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| Jonathan Seaver Seaver Street |
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All black Americans are named after slave owners, why not the streets….a rose by any other name is just as sweet…..my issue, why continue to behave in a way not natural to us….it was the native Americans robbed of their land, this is not our home and until we get it, stop accommodating, eating food not meant for us and believing we dont have a mind…..we have much bigger fish to fry….thank God i have a mind and don’t care what any one thinks of me….I am black…..actually a proud Negro who determines my own identity….we are also NOT monolithic, but would die for any of my people, including the forgotten, native American.
Not trying to sound like an apologist, but I am just reading the meticulously researched book “The Negro in Colonial New England”, which says that Samuel Adams and John Adams not only abhorred slavery, but they did not own any.
I have not had the opportunity to read your source material, but one would think that y’all would have a broader depth of research.
All that being said, I applaud this site and your good efforts.
Whoever put Edward Everett’s name on this list has some explaining to do.
Edward Everett was an outspoken anti-slavery statesman and minister. He is was of the strongest advocates for black people, if not the strongest, in the history of Boston. In 1846, when he became President of Harvard College, he became aware of Beverly G. Williams, an outstanding scholar and prep school classmate of his own son. He made known his intention to admit young Mr. Williams to Harvard as the first black student at the College. This caused some grumblings, to which he replied, “As he will be very well fitted, I know of no reason why he should not be admitted.” When he some of the white students voiced their objections and threatened to withdraw, he said, “The admission to Harvard College depends upon examinations; and if this boy passes the examinations, he will be admitted; and if the white students choose to withdraw, all the income of the College will be devoted to his education.” Unfortunately, Williams died of tuberculosis just a few weeks before the 1847 school year began, two month short of his 18th birthday. It was not until after the Civil War, in 1865, that Richard T. Greener became the first black student enrolled in Harvard College, 18 years after Edward Everett saw no reason why a qualified black student should not be admitted.
As a US Senator, he opposed allowing slavery in the new states in the West. He saw that civil war was close to breaking out over the issue, and hoped to avoid it by being more gradual and moderate in his abolitionism than many in Massachusetts would have liked. He received some criticism for this. He had hoped that slavery in the South could be ended without war, but embraced the Union cause when war broke out. As the main speaker at Gettysburg on November 19, 1863, he emphasized the justice of their cause, that there could no longer be no peace with slavery, and that there is no going back.